I'm controling your mind... have a nice day

the neighborhood and exterior of the "mansion"

Tour of the renovation plans

Concrete?

Maybe we need some concrete.... :)

This...

Has to come off. We want to restore it with something closer to the original.

Front entry

Power washing and a WHOLE LOT of sanding and repainting. Not sure what colors are going on the outside yet. Any suggestions?

windows above the doors

This ceiling was dropped and will be raised again and the window above will probably be replaced with a cool beveled leaded glass display.

front steps

I'm thinking we may need some more concrete work done...

ewwwwww x 10000000000

This awful bathroom is in the basement and once I go in there with a powerwasher.... it might not be so bad and may survive in the basement until one of the last things.

dark

Possible frame shop in the basement... dark and scary now, but soon to be beautiful!

EWWWW EWWWW EWWWWWWW!

Gross basement... smelly and horrible and covered in cooties!! To be completely gutted and reworked.

Basement living room.

Possibly to become the theatre room, the kitchen here to become a wet bar, and the hall to the left leads to a possible frame shop. :)

This is looking out the master suite

On the left of the photo is the stair entry and the right is the gross kitchen that will turn into the sitting room or something.

This bathroom will be...

Also part of the Master suite space.

This room will be.....

The master suite's closet and master bath! YAY! It's gonna be GINORMOUS!

Odd shaped hallway

As far as we can tell, this hallway is original... weird.

Room

This is going to be a room upstairs. The original wall is still visible to the right of the door. This was a hallway and will be once again. I think this is the wall that had covered up a pocket door entry, If so that is going to be uncovered and hopeflly the doors are still there!!

Candace!

Not entirely sure which room this is, but that is CANDACE!

Master suite

This lovely bay window is in the master suite. To the left is the kitchen are below and directly behind me is another room the will be turned into the closet, bathroom, and in from the other side of the wall we will build in a laundry room! YAY! Not entirely certain that the washer and dryer will make it up the stairs... DOH!

Kitchen

A kitchen... again... This kitchen will be off the new master suite. Possibly turning it into a small office or library area, maybe a sitting room. And... it's disgusting! Yes--- that's mold in the cabinet.

Kitchen

This-- when we are done... this... will be.... a KITCHEN! Surprise!!! of course it won't be anything close to this awful! And you can kinda see where the exterior door was covered over to the left of the cabinets.

Dining room

This is the room off the kitchen. It will be a dining room! A very large grand dining room! GREAT! This is also the only room on the lower level without that horrible popcorn atrocity. And what is that above the baseboards??? I'm from Phoenix and that doesn't look right to me. I was told that is called a "radiator." We are going to hopefully replace them with some more period appropriate cast iron ornate radiators. So... if you have some you want to donate-- that's awesome possom!

Kitchen

One of the first kitchens scheduled for DEMOLITION!!!!

painted stained glass

YAY! More glass to scrape off the windows!

Stairs

These are the stairs and the foyer and the under the stairs "Harry Potter room". The main entry door is off to the right. The stairs are narrow and we are not quite sure how they got the fridges upstairs, but we should be able to get them down, right???

inside

This is the first room to the left when entering the house. Probably going to be a living room. In this photo you can see the inside of the glass has been painted white... BLAH! Love the bay window though. And what's that you say? POPCORN??? Popcorn ceilings in the year 1905? I don't think so... they weren't that dumb back then. This ceiling was dropped at some point through at least three rooms in the down stairs and I get to raise it back up to the the original height of 10'9"!!!!

beautiful architecture!

front

This is a photo of the front of the 1905 Queen Anne Victorian/ Four Square mansion. It's being sold by the city along with the property next door for next to nothing. It was turned into a five-plex. There are requirements and the city does want whoever buys it to restore it to a single family dwelling. The yellow monster on the side will be reconverted to a wrap around porch and will no longer be scary! That also means that all the windows will have the stained glass around the edges.

back

This is the back of the house. The yellow addition we think was a wrap around porch at some point and will be demolished and turned back into a wrap around porch. Original wood slats are still under the current floors. This will uncover the house's original exterior and one of the three exterior doors mentioned below. Yes... we will be losing square footage, but-- totally worth it as far as the restoration will go. The house to the west of the property, which is where I was standing to take this photo, was demolished by the city and the land is being included in the sale of this mansion. YAY for more land! :)

hmm...

Love this decorative element. It was missing from the other three sides and we may have never known it existed if it weren't for this side. If we can figure out how to replicate it we will need four new ones, but we may have to scrap it from the project.

yay for another mystery door!

There will be a total of three exterior doors uncovered in this process. This one currently leads to a covered over wall in the kitchen. Hooray for easy access from the kitchen to the grill!

porch

This poorly executed porch was added on to the house at some point and will eventually be replaced with a different one that follows the original lines.

YAY for mystery doors!

Why anyone would ever cover over an existing exterior door is beyond me, but to brick it up and to just have doors outside with no knobs and to cover it on the inside... is just silly. The lower door goes to the icky yucky basement and the upper door leads to no where, but when we are done it will go into what is now a bathroom. Don't worry... the bathroom will magically disappear!

stained glass

Much of the stained glass appears to be original to the house, as do most of the windows the stained glass is surrounded by. Some of the lower windows in the house have been replaced with Plexiglas (yay for me........). All glass is single pane and will probably be rebuilt and replaced at some point. The stained glass here, was painted white on the inside of the house (lord only knows why...) and so I'm the lucky one who gets to fix that problem and I actually am highly excited to do so. :)

round things

gonna have to find some of these round things to replace broken and missing ones. if we cannot find exact matches, we will probably have to salvage off one side and add those tot he other side, then buy new ones for the empty side.

East

this photo is a picture of the east side of a four square/victorian mansion on 26th and Jefferson in Ogden. All windows that were built with the house have the stained glass around the edges of the top windows.